Spelling
By the end of Year 4 pupils should be able to spell:
Examples
Adding suffixes beginning with
vowel letters to words of more than
one syllable
The sound spelt y elsewhere than
at the end of words
The sound spelt ou
More prefixes
The suffix –ation
The suffix –ly
Words ending in –sure, -ture, -cher
Words ending in -sion
The suffix –ous
Words ending in –tion, –sion, –
ssion, –cian
forgetting, forgotten, beginning, beginner, prefer, preferred
gardening, gardener, limiting, limited, limitation
myth, gym, Egypt, pyramid, mystery
young, touch, double, trouble, country
dis–: disappoint, disagree, disobey
mis–: misbehave, mislead, misspell
in–: inactive, incorrect, illegal, illegible
re–: redo, refresh, return, reappear, redecorate
anti–: antiseptic, anti-clockwise, antisocial
information, adoration, sensation, preparation, admiration
sadly, completely, usually, finally, comically, happily, angrily,
gently, simply, humbly, nobly, basically, frantically, dramatically
measure, treasure, pleasure, enclosure
creature, furniture, picture, nature, adventure
teacher, catcher, richer, stretcher
division, invasion, confusion, decision, collision, television
poisonous, dangerous, mountainous, famous, various
tremendous, enormous, jealous
humorous, glamorous, vigorous
courageous, outrageous
serious, obvious, curious
hideous, spontaneous, courteous
invention, injection, action, hesitation, completion
expression, discussion, confession, permission, admission
expansion, extension, comprehension, tension
musician, electrician, magician, politician, mathematician
Words with the sound spelt ch
(Greek in origin)
Words with the sound spelt ch
(mostly French in origin)
Words ending with the sound spelt
–gue and the sound spelt –que
(French in origin)
scheme, chorus, chemist, echo, character
Words with the sound spelt ei,
eigh, or ey
Possessive apostrophe with plural
words
Homophones and nearhomophones
vein, weigh, eight, neighbour, they, obey
chef, chalet, machine, brochure
league, tongue, antique, unique
girls’, boys’, babies’, children’s, men’s, mice’s
accept/except, affect/effect, ball/bawl, berry/bury, brake/break,
fair/fare, grate/great, groan/grown, here/hear, heel/heal/he’ll,
knot/not, mail/male, main/mane, meat/meet, medal/meddle,
missed/mist, peace/piece, plain/plane, rain/rein/reign,
scene/seen, weather/whether, whose/who’s
Spelling
By the end of Year 4 pupils should be able to spell:
accident(ally)
actual(ly)
address
answer
appear
arrive
believe
bicycle
breath
breathe
build
busy/business
calendar
caught
centre
famous
favourite
February
forward(s)
fruit
grammar
group
guard
guide
heard
heart
height
history
imagine
increase
peculiar
perhaps
popular
position
possess(ion)
possible
potatoes
pressure
probably
promise
purpose
quarter
question
recent
regular
century
certain
circle
complete
consider
continue
decide
describe
different
difficult
disappear
early
earth
eight/eighth
enough
exercise
experience
experiment
extreme
important
interest
island
knowledge
learn
length
library
material
medicine
mention
minute
natural
naughty
notice
occasion(ally)
often
opposite
ordinary
particular
reign
remember
sentence
separate
special
straight
strange
strength
suppose
surprise
therefore
though/although
thought
through
various
weight
woman/women